Leon County volunteers were sprucing up a neighborhood east of Tallahassee on Thursday, Sept. 9. It was part of the county's annual day of service in response to the Nine-Eleven attacks 20 years ago.Like millions of Americans, Gwendolyn Wilkins remembered where she was when the attacks took place.
"I was at my mother's home trying to help her get some paperwork completed and the television was on. I glanced at that and I saw the breaking news come through and the building smoking and then the second plane enter."
But Wilkins will have a happier memory of this year's 911 anniversary. That's because Leon County volunteers spent much of Thursday sprucing up her home and nearly 3 dozen others in Frontier Estates off Apalachee Parkway.
"It's a great service that they chose Frontier Estates to come out and clean up our neighborhood during this remembrance."
The clean up included home and driveway pressure washing and landscape trimming. The county has hosted community service events each year since the attacks.
